主讲人：Werner Sommer教授（德国柏林洪堡大学）

讲座时间：2024年3月4日（周一）下午13:30—15:00

讲座地点：宁波大学西校区实验楼307会议厅

主讲人简介：

Prof. Dr. Werner Sommer received a PhD in Psychology from the University of Konstanz in 1982 and was Professor of Biological Psychology and Psychophysiology at the Humboldt University at Berlin until his retirement in 2018, after which he continued research with collaborators in Germany,China, Hongkong, Iran, Kenia, Malaysia, Poland, and Spain. Hisresearch areas are diverse, such as spoken and written language perception and reading, face recognition, emotion, the Psychology of meals and food preferences, and individual differences in social cognition and cognitive functions. Apart from behavioral measures he mainly employs EEG recordings but also other research methods. Werner Sommer has received numerous research grants; recently he completed a visiting professorship at the Zhejiang normal University;currently he is adjunct professor at the National University of Malaysia anddistinguished visitor at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

讲座内容简介：

The food that we eat is of great importance for physical health and the environment (biodiversity, climate change). If there is choice between different kinds of food, it is strongly influenced by our preferences. Therefore, food preferences are crucial for food choice and consumption. In my presentation, I will give an overview of the factors that determine food preferences and describe recent attempts to modify some of these preferences. Thus, in two studies we used post-hypnotic suggestions in order to foster healthy and plant-based food preferences and investigated the neural correlates of the modifications (Zahedi et al., 2020, 2023). In a recent study conducted in Kenya, we explore the power of story-telling to preschool children in modifying their food preferences.